Meanings
- Elongated form of ooh.
present singular third person ooohs · participle present ooohing · participle past ooohed · past ooohed
- Elongated form of ooh.
plural ooohs
- Elongated form of ooh.
I tried listening to the radio, but it was making the same "ooohs" and "aaahs," helped out by gentlemanly tones which blathered about this "magnificent spectacle" and "unique phenomenon" until I began to feel that there was a parry for all the world going on, with me as the only person not invited.
1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 14
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